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<h4 class="subsection">7.6.2 Wisdom String Export/Import from Fortran</h4>

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<p>Dealing with FFTW&rsquo;s C string export/import is a bit more painful.  In
particular, the <code>fftw_export_wisdom_to_string</code> function requires
you to deal with a dynamically allocated C string.  To get its length,
you must define an interface to the C <code>strlen</code> function, and to
deallocate it you must define an interface to C <code>free</code>:
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<pre class="example">  use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding
  interface
    integer(C_INT) function strlen(s) bind(C, name='strlen')
      import
      type(C_PTR), value :: s
    end function strlen
    subroutine free(p) bind(C, name='free')
      import
      type(C_PTR), value :: p
    end subroutine free
  end interface
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<p>Given these definitions, you can then export wisdom to a Fortran
character array:
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<pre class="example">  character(C_CHAR), pointer :: s(:)
  integer(C_SIZE_T) :: slen
  type(C_PTR) :: p
  p = fftw_export_wisdom_to_string()
  if (.not. c_associated(p)) stop 'error exporting wisdom'
  slen = strlen(p)
  call c_f_pointer(p, s, [slen+1])
  ...
  call free(p)
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<p>Note that <code>slen</code> is the length of the C string, but the length of
the array is <code>slen+1</code> because it includes the terminating null
character.  (You can omit the &lsquo;<samp>+1</samp>&rsquo; if you don&rsquo;t want Fortran to
know about the null character.) The standard <code>c_associated</code> function
checks whether <code>p</code> is a null pointer, which is returned by
<code>fftw_export_wisdom_to_string</code> if there was an error.
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<p>To import wisdom from a string, use
<code>fftw_import_wisdom_from_string</code> as usual; note that the argument
of this function must be a <code>character(C_CHAR)</code> that is terminated
by the <code>C_NULL_CHAR</code> character, like the <code>s</code> array above.
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